Upton Pushing For Border Funding By Week’s End

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Congressman Fred Upton is hoping a bipartisan border funding bill can be approved by the end of the week. That’s as the House and Senate this week each approved their own bills. Upton tells WSJM News money must be set aside to pay for operations along the southern border one way or another as a humanitarian crisis mounts there.

“Not only are you talking about border security needs, but you’re actually talking about the need of unaccompanied children, asylum requests, food and housing,” Upton said. “I mean, it’s just overwhelming.”

A House bill approved mostly by Democrats on Tuesday contained a variety of restrictions on how the money could be used. A Senate plan passed Wednesday. Upton’s office said after the vote what “we need to do is pass bipartisan legislation that would address the crisis, pass both the House and the Senate, and be signed by the President – and we need to do it quickly.”